Putin's Ukraine gambit

8:30 PM,
Feb. 28, 2014

Charles Krauthammer

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Charles Krauthammer

Henry Kissinger once pointed out that since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year. All undone, of course, by the collapse of the Soviet Union, which Russian President Vladimir Putin called "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century."